tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59732572550323519372019-02-20T21:02:39.510-07:00moe talks a lotA home DIY blog. Interior design and decorating. Along with home improvement projects to up resale value. All done on a budget with thrifting, yard selling and making it myself.Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.comBlogger470125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-30572397562390175272019-02-20T21:02:00.000-07:002019-02-20T21:02:39.414-07:002019 chapter 9My leg/back is finally feeling better! Not totally healed better, but improvements. Saturday was a real low. I cried bagging my groceries. That night I prayed that I'd start seeing improvements, something to help give me motivation and lift my spirits (cause, I was at "cry bagging my groceries level). I kid you not, Sunday morning I woke up feeling better than I had in months and had no pain Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-45564703846523185852019-02-13T21:12:00.001-07:002019-02-13T22:06:58.384-07:002019 chapter 7
LOTS of places I could start. There always are. But, I'll start with this:
NAPS ARE BACK ON THE TABLE!!! I lay down with them for 10 minutes (only way a nap will come about) and they either fall asleep or they're wiggly and then I tell them they don't have to take a nap, but they need to stay in their room and they feel grateful they dodged the nap bullet and then actually stay in their roomMelissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-57761255931871835662019-02-06T21:17:00.002-07:002019-02-06T21:17:24.655-07:002019 chapter 6
I went to physical therapy for the first time today! Finally. Astonishingly I'm not healed. Turns out I have to keep going back. Haha. Kidding. Well, not about going back, I do need to do that. But I feel hopeful and excited. I got exercises and info that'll help me. Woohoo!
We've been getting more snow and continue to have some shut in doors day. Blake's been making the best of it with Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-21358997501237757382019-01-30T20:17:00.001-07:002019-01-30T20:17:35.724-07:002019 chapter 5
Biggest thing from this week = the -56° weather. With windchill. Not that that lessens the crappy coldness of this week. In Alaska the coldest I saw was -35°, but I never knew what the windchill was. Real feel here got down to -31°. But, at least I see the sun here. Oh, arctic vortex. I told my kids that's why it's so cold and because I knew that then Wade would talk to me about the Arctic Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-39636394698871213962019-01-23T21:09:00.000-07:002019-01-23T21:09:12.686-07:002019 chapter 4
We've been playing outside! And I cannot stop laughing. Jacqueline can't figure out how to lift her feet and make her little sled go. And every time Blake falls off her sled she stomps around grumbling "so frustrated"! And Wade keeps reciting every single moment as it happens on repeat. Oh, and then there are the crashes - today Jac and Wade ran into some bushes and they hit and then a second Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-19119823180142970722019-01-16T20:41:00.000-07:002019-01-16T20:41:42.954-07:002019 chapter 3Girls took a nap this afternoon. It was a rare quiet time where I suddenly realizes that it was actually quiet and I went in to find that they had fallen asleep on their own (usually when they need a nap I have to lie down with them). That being said, as I sit down this evening to write this, I fully expect to be interrupted.
Another sleeping Blake. She fell asleep in the car and slept likeMelissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-50703303019005828662019-01-09T20:36:00.003-07:002019-01-09T20:36:48.060-07:002019 chapter 2
"Mom, how does water not get in the fish's eyes?!" The always inquisitive 5 year old. He also made yogurt grapes this week. Not the worst of his creations, and they did eat them all. All 3 pounds.
He also made "power lines" out of pipe cleaners to connect his town. He was sure to tell me that they weren't real power lines, just pretend. Nana and Papa got him a circuit toy for Christmas Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-37248077368373713712019-01-02T22:37:00.003-07:002019-01-02T22:40:42.837-07:002019 chapter 1Happy New Year!!! I spent midnight freezing while getting gas at a Loves gas station on the way back from Texas.
Christmas day we got in the car when we knew the kids would fall asleep and started the 14 hour drive to Texas. When we were ready for dinner we realized our dumbness of our plan, because not even a McDonald's was open - which, good for them, but we were hungry! Ended up at a Denny's.Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-88204028967915967822018-12-19T21:05:00.000-07:002018-12-19T21:05:17.152-07:002018 chapter 51: December 19Tomorrow I turn 32! To celebrate I went to the store to get beans and forgot beans. I continue to walk like I'm 80 (which is getting better). And I went to the dentist and things are so bad, that I have to go back for a consult. Woohoo!
Bryan went to the dentist last week and got a root canal today. Good thing I've been working a lot so we can pay for our teeth. And good thing I know a good Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-20867810486250717242018-12-12T21:18:00.001-07:002018-12-12T21:18:14.526-07:002018 chapter 50: December 12
Wade turned FIVE!!!! We had a Grossery Gang birthday party ON HIS BIRTHDAY with 10 friends (plus my 3 kids) and he loved it - up until he opened his presents (which was insane, I don't even know who got him what cause everyone was trying to help him and he was trying to do it himself), and then he was ready for everyone to leave so he could play with his new stuff.
His party was Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-23337149613679394302018-12-05T21:06:00.004-07:002018-12-05T21:06:39.275-07:002018 chapter 49: December 5I took Santa pictures this week and I love them! We had to practice a few day before, so I could know if I needed to make any tweaks (I did, moved the lights cord. No one wants to see the lights cord. And I didn't want to edit the lights cords).
And then Santa came on Saturday and it was magical. Had different people come get pictures taken, but my kids got to hang out with Santa all Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-56184991187855206372018-11-28T22:20:00.001-07:002018-12-05T20:21:30.183-07:002018 chapter 48: November 28We had such a fun thanksgiving/black friday/shopping week/familygiving. And I apparently only took 4 pictures.
We had...a steak roast? Prime rib-ish thing, but Bryan keeps correcting me that it wasn't Prime rib. But that's what we had for Thanksgiving dinner and we had Bryan's brother and his family over and it was so great. Pretty much we're going to have that deliciousness any time we can Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-44924007931272006282018-11-21T21:02:00.001-07:002018-12-05T20:20:51.555-07:002018 chapter 47: November 21
Happy Thanksgiving! We've had a somewhat anticlimactic weekend, but also fun! Went on a walk with friends, on a balmy 40 degree day.
Pulled out some more Christmas stuff, including a small tree for the kids to decorate. Wade's super concerned about which tree Santa will bring his gifts. It was such a cute moment when I realized that the magic is alive! They've been talking all about Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-45939396227484671142018-11-14T20:46:00.003-07:002018-11-14T20:48:54.383-07:002018 chapter 46: November 14
We did a thing and everything looks 85% better!
It opened everything up, even more than I imagined. And now it's everyone's absolute favorite place to play. Balance beam. "Table" to color on. Place to build. It's a hit. We were going to put a big shelf in this spot (the shelf in the top left of this pic, which we'll put in the basement), but now we're not sure. Maybe a little Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-85976178309884118462018-11-07T19:45:00.002-07:002018-11-07T19:45:31.820-07:002018 chapter 45: November 7
Preschool started today!!!! All three kids were gone for two hours. Is it weird that I'd kinda like to watch them outside the window? See them be happy. Enjoy exploring and learning. Watching the teenager teachers think they're so cute (cause they're so cute...talking about my kiddos here, not the teenagers, to be extra clear).
Nine out of the fifteen spots available were filled up with Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-78498802559482023342018-10-31T22:12:00.000-06:002018-10-31T22:12:29.200-06:002018 chapter 44: October 31
Happy Halloween! We were space people and Wade was our space robot. Wanted to do a photoshoot in a grocery store of the space family assimilating to earth life, but we got a neighborhood shot instead.
Our kids were so excited to go trick or treating. We got a taste of it at the ward trunk or treat (and our friends came and my girls were thrilled to have their buddy with them!), and Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-36470020603743543432018-10-24T20:36:00.001-06:002018-10-24T20:45:51.717-06:002018 chapter 43: October 24
This week was long and busy and fun and exhausting. On Friday all the kids went to the doctor. Bryan thought he needed to go to help me, I told him I had it - I've always taken all three kids. Well...I was wrong. They did really great through the beginning and everyone kept pushing to go first. Then came shots. Three nurses came in. Wade got four. Shots haven't ever bothered him much, but I Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-17790667054692541932018-10-17T19:51:00.000-06:002018-10-17T19:51:09.512-06:002018 chapter 42: October 17The girls were falling asleep between 9 and 10 pm every night, so we're trying to nix their naps. It's the worst. Until 7 o'clock rolls around and they're on their way to dream land. But 4 o'clock...mommy is losing her sanity. Monday I had them all have quiet time, but it was the first time and didn't quite know how to go about doing it with two rooms and three kids, so I told them they could Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-87842304401314925872018-10-10T21:04:00.003-06:002018-10-10T21:04:36.678-06:002018 chapter 41: October 10
Bryan built us a new computer! And I brought down a lamp so he could have better lighting - the kids, obviously, figured out how to make it theirs. Did some great shadow puppet shows. But now I sit here trying to get used to a new keyboard, but having the USB port work the first time without having to blow into it...that's nice. Oh, and loading pictures in a second, that's amazing.
Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-16797097272206866732018-10-03T22:18:00.001-06:002018-10-03T22:18:55.706-06:002018 chapter 40: October 3We got a new car!!! And I kind of hate it. It's an Acura MDX - which is a very compact 7 seater. Well, I have two three year olds that can buckle themselves, but can't unbuckle themselves and one four year old that can unbuckle himself, but can't buckle himself. I can have two in the back and one in the middle row, but then I have to help awkwardly lean back there to help Wade buckle and then Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-64817378760690433542018-09-26T21:00:00.000-06:002018-09-26T21:00:33.601-06:002018 chapter 39: September 26
My leg still hurts. I still don't have a car. This month has been the roughest. I mean, in a "I'm incredible blessed" kind of way. Let's talk about some of those blessings:
My kids can get themselves breakfast.
Target is a great playground when it's rainy like crazy for days on end. Disclaimer: no doll chairs were broken, promise.
And no shelves were broken either.
Later Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-89768965071957426072018-09-19T20:08:00.001-06:002018-09-19T20:08:04.051-06:002018 chapter 38: September 19Tonight we played monster hide. It's where you go hide and the monster doesn't seek you, but he smells for you (as explained by Wade). Oh, and the monster counts to 10 and then yells "monster coming!" We have some dark and dreary weather here, and I must say, it was scary. Bryan hid in my closet and I realized he was there a second before he jumped out at the kids, I almost didn't see him - good Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-36510702923542972142018-09-12T21:11:00.000-06:002018-09-12T21:11:52.404-06:002018 chapter 37: September 12
We went to a park and had a picnic tonight (aka: calling sandwiches dinner) and Blake ate really fast and said, "Mommy, I win! Watch this!" Then ran over to do her yoga poses. Jac's full mouth and ape face are an added bonus.
Getting the boring updates out of the way:
1. We're getting a new car. Bryan and his brother are going to replace the engine in our old car and sell it. The Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-45597347598063901422018-09-05T20:31:00.000-06:002018-09-05T20:52:31.361-06:002018 chapter 36: September 5This week has been a whirlwind. Or maybe more like a hurricane. One where the eye never passes over you, so you don't get a moment of reprieve, you just keep getting pelted in the face and your roof gets torn off.
Side note, only not really side, because it's totally related: gave up Dr. Pepper for the month. So that's the constant undertone of the hurricane. I haven't lost my resolve, but this Melissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973257255032351937.post-23791691162342584622018-08-29T21:26:00.001-06:002018-08-29T21:43:53.731-06:002018 chapter 35: August 29
We've got a couple of three year olds in that house!! Bryan told Wade that Jac and Blake were three and Wade said, "No they're not. Their voices haven't changed." Bryan asked what he meant and Wade said, "They still have their stupid two year old voices." Where does he come up with this stuff? I made a huge balloon cloud monstrosity to go over the table. It fell down a few minutes into dinner, IMelissa Wrighthttps://plus.google.com/115088552801409638830noreply@blogger.com0